Linux Mint Cinnamon Crash

iProSlurpee · Aug 22, 2014

So my Linux Mint 17 system is for some reason having a strange problem, when it boots it says Do you want to restart Cinnamon? Then it says under it "Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently in fallback mode." I have no idea what to do, it gives me the options yes or no when I press yes it crashes again, please help me out, I'm so confused.

lordcirth · Sep 4, 2014

Cinnamon requires graphics acceleration for some of it's fancier features. Accept fallback mode, and search "drivers" in bottom-left Mint menu. " Driver Manager" should come up, launch it. This should give you a list of drivers available for your graphics card. Select the one marked "stable", "recommended" or similar. This should fix your issue. If it doesn't please comment.

In future please post hardware specs as well, it speeds things up a lot sometimes.

skittle · Sep 4, 2014

Have you installed many applets/cinnamon extensions? These can cause cinnamon to crash..

M1ckx · Dec 21, 2014

lordcirth :

Hi, I was running Mint 15 on an old Dell Optiplex 745. Upgraded to Mint 16 - got the error described by iProSlurpee. Went ahead with further upgrade to Mint 17. Note, my upgrades were via apt-get, not fresh installs. I used Driver Manager - it offers no listing of drivers whatsoever. I tried opening the System Settings and other config windows. The window flashes up, then immediately disappears, or fails to open altogether. Very annoying. Any thoughts?

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